The Disability Primer: What To Do Now That You Have A Diagnosis?

Piping Hot Bag of Sh*t that is a diagnosis. Not long ago I met a mom whose daughter was diagnosed with the same disorder as our daughter. She sent me a lovely note thanking me
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Telling Kids The Truth When News Is Scary, Sad, Or Bad.

Recently, someone I love shared news with me that I experience as difficult and painful. In our conversation, we chatted about how others she told received the news and she shared that it went as
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From Mom to Drug Dealing Monster Slayer

pop slide swallow hope. pop slide place hope. wrestle slide toss swallow hope.   Tiny Red Boots in a tube. My nightly routine of taking a low dose of anti-anxiety/depression medication always ends with hope.
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The Disability Primer: How To Tell If Something Is A Big Deal Or Not

How to tell if something is a big deal or not has most of us second-guessing ourselves, and I’m no exception. There has been many a time when I made a fairly big stink about
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A Real-Life Justice League for Special Needs

Making my top 5 of the hardest things to deal with remains dealing with the folks who work for health service agencies. Being patient, and “sliding” in rather than charging in are two skills I
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Fair Is Fiction, And Not The Best-Seller Kind.

Either your reaction to the header image was a gentle “hmm”, letting go is good, right. Or it was an eye roll; learn to find the joy my ass. Months ago I bought one of
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